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7/1/2013 12:49PM

Couples Beware: Empty-Nest Syndrome Can Be a Hard Hit

Couples eagerly awaiting the day when the kids move out and they can be a happy couple again might be in for a surprise: data suggest this can be a difficult time for couples. Elizabeth Bernstein joins Lunch Break with Lise and Emil Stoessel, who have their own experience to share. Photo: Nora Mertens.

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... I ... it it lights Peckham Wendy downs the divorce ring impacted jumping for couples over age fifty one catalyst ... the kids are finding out the house and it is just due to Elizabeth Bernstein are Bonds columnist she reports on the trend is an interesting stats couples are taking to save their marriage has also joined by we sent ... an email sauce all they have their own ... experiences here thank you so much for all of you ... for being here lives in that ... they think this and be a time of great growth for couples because they can file a focus on themselves again when the kids are gone ... but what happens sometimes instead ... I really focused on each other and their relationship for the last Ch ten twenty years and these are breakable Mr. strangers once those kids are cottage sitting look forward to this time of increased intimacy ... more fun more time together that they don't really know each other they don't have it out to each other anymore ... we found a meal is this what happened when your youngest daughter left the nest and just describe how things unfold in your relationship ... the answer ... that's happening ... aam ... you know screenings ... do you ... get ... inside ... because you can keep the peace plea By and for the children ... and then on Sunday and on and ... he does mean is the front and center and then toss it away ... by the end of the day is still there ... so ... that's not what happened and I know you two knitted on it right there been tried many things disorder reconnect ... bite you finally came to a very ... unusual but the but useful solution ... I and that you knew you had it you've got another house out of that coming to fly ... the ... decline when I aam and says things have gotten so to see the tree now Simmons does come soon I knew we knew ... they send me an immensely and I got the point where I just ... couldn't live here anymore I can win ... under this and that will prevent me and so we are assigning ... two large employers ... it seemed like on the ... Senate and snow ... as I said smoking and then ... I realize ... that maybe we didn't have to ... compete with Apple I made mean and how to actually ... lay ... my relationship ... maybe in human separately ... our differences could we not moving more smoothly and so that so we ... we just got another place for me to and ... and we remain many carrying Harry and I'm in the hopes that we'd be able to reconstruct ... I ... that's exactly what happened at work so well ... and a ... living happily ever after separately were looking at the above cover right there Elizabeth ... Aikido a happy ending for them their marriage did not end in divorce but ... that's not the case I've with many couples put some numbers on this divorce over fifty trend for us ... also if you're just looked at best any founded over the last twenty years the ash ... gray divorce rate the rate of divorce over people over fifty is really skyrocketed so shh nineteen ninety it was windy in how ... individuals who are getting divorced for over fifty each counts one and four five so on as a reason ... I think preparation is key for the day the kids we see don't get ... caught along with a strange in the house was the first instance play more in her calm her bonds column tomorrow the Pursell Journal thanks so much to all of you for being with us and sharing her story appreciate that